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|title=The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

|sort=Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language, The

|publisher=Icon Books

|date=November 2012

|summary=An incredibly quotable, entertaining and amusing gallimaufry of words you don't use enough – mostly because you've never heard of them.

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This book just had to be called ''The Horologicon''. Originally it meant a daily diary of devotion for a priest or monk. Our author knows it is a rare word these days and gives it to his modern Book of Hours, which is a guide to similarly obsolete, charming or unusually whimsical words set out, not as others do, as a dictionary, but in essays for every waking hour of the day, and the subject they're most likely to cover.

I must thank the publishers for my review copy.

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